Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1276 - 1269: Spirit Control Master

Chapter 1276: Chapter 1269: Spirit Control Master

"You’re overthinking it. No matter how capable you are, there are things we need to do ourselves, we won’t leave everything for you to handle," Luo’er said with a wry smile.

"Luo’er," Feng fell silent for a moment before suddenly speaking up, "from now on, don’t risk your life with everyone else. We can take care of these things."

Hearing her words, Luo’er’s smile abruptly ended, and he stared blankly for quite a while before mumbling, "I know..."

Taking advantage of the moonlight, the group safely returned to Lingyuan City, and Dongsheng’s army could do nothing about it. Because of the shelling, their camp had erupted into a raging fire, and they were busy putting it out, with no time to bother with other matters.

Though the Advance Team’s sortie had not achieved significant results, it proved the presence of Dongsheng’s General. They had not fled elsewhere but were amidst the main force. This was undoubtedly important news for the Demon Clan’s defending troops.

Moreover, after returning to the city, Luo’er also learned about some incidents that had occurred during their sortie. Zhuyan Yu told him that, while they were attacking Dongsheng’s camp, Dongsheng’s General had also prepared a night raid, almost succeeding in taking over the city walls.

As it turned out, with their camp catching fire, these generals ultimately chose to abandon the city walls and return to the camp to assist.

Essentially, both Luo’er and the commander of Dongsheng’s army had had the same thought, wondering if they could take advantage of the nighttime, which led to this nonsensical exchange of positions.

Although the Advance Team had achieved a toll of over a hundred men in the camp, the losses at the city walls of Lingyuan City were significant. Ordinary soldiers of the Beast-Ear Race could hardly resist these Cultivators and could only hope for the elite of the Beast-Ear Race’s three clans to come as reinforcements.

After the mutual exchange, Dongsheng’s army seemed to have suffered a blow to their morale. The next day, they did not continue their attack on Lingyuan City but instead stayed out of range of the city wall’s cannons, continuing to besiege it.

Dongsheng’s army did not attack, and Reimer couldn’t be bothered with them because the airship fleet was critically low on ammunition and could not initiate an attack. He could only watch as they gathered beneath his gaze.

Dongsheng’s army rested for two days, not moving their troops while reinforcing their camp’s defenses to prevent another attack from Lingyuan City’s people.

On the third day, the situation began to change as Dongsheng’s Kunzhou fleet once again arrived and confronted the airship fleet above Lingyuan City.

This was a Kunzhou fleet consisting of more than thirty Kunzhous, a vast scale indeed. Although the Kunzhous were not equipped with effective anti-air or ground support weapons, this didn’t mean they lacked combat ability.

Reimer, who had previously clashed with the Scouring Sky Beasts, knew that it was nearly impossible to shoot down these giant air creatures with conventional ammunition, and only Yuanzi Cannons could deal with them.

In other words, these thirty-plus Scouring Sky Beasts might not even need to carry weapons, as mere collisions could bring down the five airships of the airship fleet.

Unlike the Scouring Sky Beasts’ crude form, airships were very precise industrial products, particularly vulnerable were their anti-gravity engines.

Previously, when the Advance Team was on board the Valan, the Zhuyan People had only tried to disassemble the engine and had not even succeeded before the engine failed, which gave an idea of the fragility of the anti-gravity engines.

So if Dongsheng’s army was to recklessly collide their Kunzhous with the airship fleet, then certainly Reimer would be overwhelmed and would have to flee.

Therefore, upon seeing the approach of the Kunzhou fleet, Reimer immediately became cautious. After a brief exchange with the Advance Team and others, he hurriedly boarded the Helrandum, ready to maneuver and dodge at any moment.

The Advance Team did not follow him onto the airboat but chose to stay in the city. However, what no one expected was that this seemingly irrational choice would ultimately save the lives of the Advance Team.

Around ten in the morning, Dongsheng’s army reorganized their forces to mount another attack on the city. At the same time, their Kunzhou fleet also readied their position. The situation was as everyone had guessed—Dongsheng’s army seemed to be truly prepared to use their Kunzhou fleet against the High-peak people’s airship fleet.

Even the leaders of the Demon Clan were astonished by such a scene because, in memory, Dongsheng’s army had almost never deployed Kunzhous to the front line.

This seemed to also indirectly confirm Luo’er’s earlier speculation that just because the enemy doesn’t act, it doesn’t mean we can let down our guard. Since the enemy has the ability, we must not hope for them to refrain.

At this time, whether it was the Demon Clan or the Advance Team, they could clearly feel that the Dongsheng army intended to launch a major assault, ready to conquer Lingyuan City in one fell swoop and reduce this thrice-rebuilt city to ashes once again.

Therefore, not only the Demon Clan but also the Advance Team made their combat preparations, anxiously waiting for the Dongsheng army’s imminent attack.

At eleven in the morning, the three attacking groups of the Dongsheng army were all lined up and ready, just waiting for the signal to storm the city. But at this moment, the Demon Clan’s defending guards saw a strange sight.

They saw birds flying out from the ranks of the Dongsheng army, then heading towards Lingyuan City. There were hundreds of these birds, scattering their presence across the sky all at once.

On the ground, hundreds of odd animals were eagerly running towards the base of the city. These creatures were rodent-like, resembling rats but were significantly larger in size, almost akin to capybaras.

They climbed over the moat filled with floating corpses, then arrived at the base of the city walls, circumventing the cheval de frise, and began to hook their claws into the walls, attempting to climb up.

Seeing these animals’ actions, the Demon Clan’s guards felt both perplexed and noticeably uneasy, appearing somewhat at a loss.

In the sky, the birds let out piercing cries as they flew over the city walls and into the airspace of Lingyuan City. Upon closer inspection, one could see that these were brown birds, roughly the size of a goose, with exceptionally large gullets that were as big as watermelons, making them very conspicuous.

The birds shrieked tragically, an omen of sorts, as if hinting at something. After the birds flew over the walls, the giant rats below became restless, emitting a series of squeaky and hoarse noises.

"Are they engaging in biological warfare?" Upon seeing this, Hu Daoke couldn’t help but blurt out.

Zisu, who was in charge of supervising the battle, bowed her head in thought, then suddenly, as if realizing something, cried out urgently, "Drive them away, quick, drive them all away!"

Her sudden outburst startled everyone around, and Luo’er asked with concern, "What’s wrong, what happened?"

"Spirit Control Masters, it must be them, the Spirit Control Masters!" Zisu revealed a frightened expression, pointing towards the distant Dongsheng army as her voice trembled.

"Spirit Control Masters?" Luo’er heard this term for the first time and was momentarily dumbfounded.

Immediately after, as if to match Zisu’s fear, a piercing whistle came from the ranks of the Dongsheng army. The sound was so penetrating that the entire population of Lingyuan City could hear it.

On hearing the sharp whistle, the circling birds let out even more tragic cries and began to dive towards the ground, with the higher-flying ones heading straight for the Helrandum.

At the same time, on the ground, the giant rats continued to pile up, eventually all gathering on one side of the city wall, trampling over each other in their eagerness to climb up, seemingly very agitated.

Luo’er watched agape as a bird flew straight towards him. It didn’t achieve its aim, for at less than ten meters away from Luo’er, Feng unsheathed his long sword, and with a slash of sword energy, cut it cleanly in two. But other areas were not so lucky.

Not long after the whistle subsided, a deep and powerful roar came once again from within the Dongsheng army, a guttural growl that caused Luo’er to feel his innards incessantly quivering.

Accompanying the deep growls, a succession of bursting sounds erupted, incessant and amalgamating into a cacophony.

Luo’er, who had not yet grasped what was happening, immediately felt nauseous. For him, this was an all too familiar sensation, only produced when there was a massive fluctuation of magical energy.

His body, indeed, couldn’t withstand the intense fluctuations of magic, and he couldn’t help but kneel on the ground, beginning to retch uncontrollably.

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